forty days. Lieutenant Bache captured a Col-ington, Mo. Four soldiers of company A, Fifth onel Mattock, who was on a conscription expedi- M. S. M.-Edwin Ross, Chris. Sele, Martin tion, and it gave unusual satisfaction to all the people."

-AT Richmond, Va., three Irishwomen were charged with buying a load of mush-melons in the Second Market, with intent to retail them, and were fined five dollars, and the melons were ordered to be confiscated.

Fisher, and Charles Waggoner were on the steamer visiting their homes at the latter place, on furloughs. They were taken out and marched off with the assurance that they were to be exchanged for other prisoners or paroled. When the rebels had marched about two miles, they stopped and divided the plunder and money, It is well the attention of the efficient clerk of which employed them about an hour, after which the Second Market has been called to these crea-order was given to fire, at which Ross, Sele, and the prisoners were put in line, and instantly the tures. They swarm through the market every Fisher fell dead, but young Waggoner, finding morning, and buy up the major part of the fruit himself unhurt, sprang away for safety, and brought in by the country people, and take it to their houses to retail. As they understand the though shot after shot rattled past him, he finally made his way uninjured to the brush, and world, a jug of whisky and a half-dozen melons, went into Lexington. and a dozen hard-boiled eggs, constitute a respectable store.-Richmond Examiner.

-A REBEL raid was made upon a collection of vessels on the eastern shore of Virginia. The schooners Ireland and John J. Houseman were taken out to sea, plundered, and set adrift. The schooner Alexandria was also plundered, and the

valued at thirty thousand dollars, was captured.

-M. LARUE HARRISON, commanding a force of National troops three hundred strong, attacked the combined forces of the rebels Coffee and Brown at Seneca Station, one mile west of Enter-government schooner Alliance, loaded with stores prise, at the mouth of Buffalo Creek, Indian Territory, at ten o'clock this morning, and after an engagement of two hours, completely routed them, driving them southward in disorder. As the engagement occurred in a dense grape-vine thicket, it was impossible to estimate the loss of the rebels; five were ascertained to have been killed, among them a Captain W. R. Johnson. Colonel Harrison lost none, either in killed, wounded, or missing.-A MAGAZINE on James Island, S. C., belonging to the rebels, exploded, killing a lieutenant and six men.-PRESIDENT LINCOLN issued a proclamation suspending the writ of habeas corpus in certain cases.-(Doc. 171.)

September 16.-The rebel steamer Lizzie Davis, from Havana, for Mobile, Ala., was captured in latitude 25° 58′ north, longitude 85° 11' west, by the National flag-ship San Jacinto.-THE rebel forces made an attempt to recross the Rapid Ann River, but were foiled by the National artillery and cavalry. They advanced in three columns, with artillery, toward the river, but being opposed by the Union troops on the north side, soon fell back. A SPIRITED skirmish took place at White Plains, Va., in which the rebels were dispersed

in disorder.

September 17.-The steamer Marcella was seized and plundered by rebel guerrillas, in the vicinity of Dover Landing, ten miles below Lex

September 18.-General Schofield, in command in Missouri, issued a General Order, stating that martial law would be enforced throughout his department against all persons who should in any manner encourage military insubordination, or endeavor to create disaffection among the troops and against all persons who should publish or utter publicly words calculated to excite insurrection, lawless acts among the people, or who should publish falsehoods or misrepresentations of facts, calculated to embarrass or weaken the military authorities, or in any way interfere with the men in the discharge of their duties. Any person guilty of either of the offences above mentioned, should be punished by fine and imprisonment at the discretion of a military commission, and any newspaper which might contain said publications in violation of this order would be suppressed.

-A PARTY of soldiers, belonging to the Eightythird Illinois regiment, were attacked, about five miles above Fort Donelson, Tenn., by a party of rebel guerrillas, led by the notorious George Hinson. The guerrillas were secreted in bushes, from which they fired a volley, killing two of the soldiers, named John Pickerel and A. P. Wolfe, of company E. The guerrillas escaped after the firing. The soldiers sent a man to the fort for an ambulance, removed a short distance

from the road, and hid in the bushes. The guerrillas soon returned, when the soldiers fired on them five rounds. Hinson was shot in the head. The rest fled.

-MAJOR-GENERAL DIX issued general orders, thanking the troops quartered in the city of NewYork, during the difficulties consequent upon the draft, for their admirable discipline and soldierly deportment.-COLONEL TRUSTEN POLK, formerly United States Senator from Missouri, with his wife and daughter, was captured at Bolivar Landing, Arkansas, and delivered to General Buford, commanding at Helena. Colonel Polk was General Holmes's Judge-Advocate General, and was with the rebels at New-Madrid.

September 19.-A party belonging to the command of General Buford, swam the Rapid Ann River, near Raccoon Ford, and after capturing a considerable number of prisoners, returned to their camp in safety.-THE battle of Chickamauga, Ga., between the Union forces under General Rosecrans, and the rebels under General Bragg, commenced this day.-(Docs. 43, 105, and 123.) September 20.-Lieutenant Earl, of the Fourth Wisconsin regiment, in command of a squad of forty cavalry, marched from Baton Rouge, La., as far as Comite River, and captured fourteen prisoners, with their arms, horses, and equipments. Among the prisoners were Colonel Hunter and Captain Perry, notorious guerrilla chiefs.

September 21.-Twenty-one persons, exiled for various degrees and offences of disloyalty, accompanied by nine ladies, who went by permission of the War Department to rejoin their families, permanently residing at the South, left St. Louis, Mo., in charge of Captain Edward Lawler, of the First Missouri infantry. They were sent within the rebel lines in accordance with orders of the National War Department, of April twenty-fourth, 1863.-JAMES M. MASON, the rebel commissioner in England, informed Earl Russell, at the Court of St. James's, that his commission was at an end, and that he was ordered by Jefferson Davis to remove from the country. THE British schooner Martha Jane, was captured by the gunboat Fort Henry's tender Annie, off Bayport, Florida.

-THE revenue steamer Hercules, while lying off the Virginia shore, was attacked by a large party of rebel guerrillas, but they were driven off after a fight of about twenty minutes, without inflicting any serious damage to the steamer

or her crew.-THE battle of Chickamauga, Ga., was concluded by the Union forces falling back on Chattanooga, after a gallant fight by General Thomas's corps.-(Docs. 43, 105, 123, and 184.)

September 22.-General Buford, with a portion of his division, drove the rebel pickets through Madison Court-House, Va. Three miles beyond he encountered a strong force of the enemy's cavalry, and after a spirited fight he forced them to retreat, and drove them across the Rapidan at the point where the Gordonsville Railroad intercepts the river. The National casualties were one killed and about twenty wounded. Forty-five prisoners were taken; among them Lieutenant-Colonel Delaney, of Cobb's Georgia Legion, Lieutenant Boyce, and two privates of North-Carolina regiments, who were seriously wounded. Unionists wounded include Lieutenant Hines, of the Fifth New-York cavalry, and Lieutenant G. W. Bullock, of the Ninth; also, R. Minshall, of the Third Indiana, and Sergeants Dunning, Cummings, and Bell, and Corporal Bell, all of the Eighth Illinois, and J. Ingmonson, of the Twelfth Illinois, (the last-named a bugler.) B. F. Soder, of the Third Indiana, was

killed.

-A SCOUT of the Sixth Provisional regiment, E. M. M., commanded by Captain Holloman, attacked a party of guerrillas in Arkansas, killing four, wounding four, and capturing one-the wounded also being prisoners. -THE steamer Leviathan, which was captured at an early hour this morning by the crew of the rebel yacht Teaser, was recaptured by the National gunboat De Soto, soon after she had left the mouth of the Mississippi River. -THE battle of Blountville, Tenn., was fought this day between the Union forces under the command of Colonel Foster, and the rebels under Carter.—(Doc. 173.)

-THE English steamer Juno, which had run the blockade of Wilmington the night previous, was captured by the National gunboat Connecticut.-A BODY of rebel cavalry crossed into Upper Maryland, a few miles from Rockville, but had not proceeded far before they were met by a portion of Scott's "Nine Hundred" cavalry and an infantry force. A fight ensued, and thirtyfour rebels were killed and wounded. Among their killed was Captain Frank Kilgore, (of Maryland,) the commander of the enemy's forces. The rebels finding they were contending with superior numbers, retreated.

o'clock this morning a squad of twenty-one guerrillas made a raid at Wood Station Number Thirteen, on the line of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, Va., about twelve miles from the latter place, stealing nine mules. Sergeant Highland, of Pennsylvania, who started in the direction of the plunderers, was taken prisoner.-PRESIDENT LINCOLN issued a proclamation raising the blockade of the port of Alexandria, Va.-(Doc. 175.)

September 23.-The blockade-running steamer Phantom was chased ashore near Rich Inlet, N. C., by the Union gunboat Connecticut, and afterward deserted by her crew, who set her on fire before leaving; in the afternoon, men were sent on shore from the Connecticut, to destroy the boats of the steamer that had been drawn up on the beach. While in the act of destroying them, the men were attacked by a party of concealed rebels, who succeeded in driving them September 25.-The English steamer William back to the gunboat with a loss of one killed and Penn, which was captured near the Rio Grande, one wounded.-LIEUTENANT-GENERAL LONGSTREET arrived at New-Orleans. - SPENCER KELLOGG issued General Orders to his troops, congratu- BROWN, condemned by the rebels as a spy, was lating them on the brilliant victory which had hung at Richmond, Va.-A FIGHT took place near crowned their heroic efforts at Chickamauga. Upperville, Va., between Major Cole's command At one o'clock this morning, a raid was made of National cavalry, and about one hundred and upon a telegraph office opposite Donaldsonville, fifty guerrillas belonging to Mosby's gang, in La., by a band of rebel guerrillas, who captured which the latter were defeated and put to flight. and carried off fourteen men of the Fourteenth Major Cole recaptured seventy-five horses and regiment of New-York cavalry and the telegraph mules, and one man. belonging to the Nineteenth operator.-THE English steamer Diamond, while New-York cavalry, besides killing one of the attempting to run the blockade, was captured guerrillas and capturing nine.-A PARTY of by the United States steamer Stettin, off St. Simon's Sound, Ga.-A SECRET expedition from Beaufort, S. C., to the mainland, under Captain J. E. Bryant, of the Eighth Maine volunteers, and consisting of two companies of colored troops, the chaplain of Colonel Higginson's regiment, a telegraph operator, and a lieutenant of the Fourth South-Carolina volunteers, returned with only partial success. The expedition started by order of General Gillmore, with the view, not of cutting the rebel telegraph between Charleston and Savannah, but of attaching a wire and receiving their despatches. Owing to the carelessness of the operator, the wire, instead of being hid behind the pole, was allowed to hang in plain sight, and was discovered by the passengers in the first passing train; not, however, until some very important messages had been received, and among others a telegram to the commander of the rebel troops in Savannah from Beauregard, ordering all his forces to Charleston, to engage in an attack on Folly Island.

September 24.—General Robert E. Lee issued an order announcing to the rebel army in Virginia, "with profound gratitude to Almighty God, the victory achieved at Chickamauga by the army of Braxton Bragg," and calling upon his soldiers to "emulate the heroic example of our brethren in the South, until the enemy shall be expelled from our borders, and peace and independence be secured."-BETWEEN eight and nine

guerrillas attacked the Union garrison at Donaldsonville, La., but were repulsed, and compelled to retire with slight loss.

September 26.-E. Kirby Smith, LieutenantGeneral in the rebel army, commanding in the South-West, issued the following address to the people of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas:

"Your homes are in peril. Vigorous efforts on your part can alone save portions of your State from invasion. You should contest the advance of the enemy, thicket, gully, and stream; harass his rear and cut off his supplies. Thus you will prove important auxiliaries in any attempt to reach him in front, and drive him, routed, from our soil. Determination and energy only can prevent his destruction of your homes. By a vigorous and united effort you preserve your property, you secure independence for yourselves and children-all that renders life desirable. Time is our best friend. Endure awhile longer; victory and peace must crown our efforts. The amended regulations governing the formation of corps for local defence are published for your information, and I call upon you to organize promptly under its provisions."

September 27.-Captain Parker, of the First Arkansas infantry, with seventy-five men, was attacked near Moffat's Store, in Franklin County, Arkansas, by Shelby's rebel cavalry. His loss was two killed, two wounded, and fifteen prisoners. The rebel loss was five killed and twenty

wounded-among the latter, Shelby, their commander.

September 29.-The Cincinnati Enquirer of this day contained the following:

"It is now stated that a bill has been prepared and will be placed before the next Congress, declaring Lincoln President while the war lasts. Thus the mad fanatics are plotting against our liberties, and if we do not speak right soon through the ballot-box, the last vestige of our republican government will have been swept away."

-THE gunboat Bombshell, Captain Brinkerhoff, left Newbern a few days ago, under sealed orders, and made a reconnoissance of Pasquotank River, which empties into Albemarle Sound. Landing a boat's crew near Elizabeth City, the

September 28.-President Lincoln directed that the Twentieth and Twenty-first army corps be consolidated and called the Fourth army corps, and that Major-General Gordon Granger be the commander of this consolidated corps. He also directed that a Court of Inquiry be convened to inquire into and report upon the conduct of Major-Generals McCook and Crittenden in the battles of the nineteenth and twentieth instant. These officers were relieved from duty in the army of the Cumberland, and were ordered to repair to Indianapolis, Ind., reporting their arrival by letter to the Adjutant-General of the army. LIEUTENANT EARL and thirty men, belong-men were captured by rebels, when Captain ing to the Fourth Wisconsin cavalry, captured a Brinckerhoff opened a vigorous fire on the town, party of rebel guerrillas and cavalrymen, in the doing considerable damage.-A SLIGHT skirmish neighborhood of the junction of the Amite and Co- took place at Moor's Bluff on the Big Black River, mite Rivers, La., and safely conducted them into Miss., resulting in the retreat of the Union forces. Baton Rouge. Among the prisoners were Col--A BATTLE took place at Morganza, La.-(Doc. onel Hunter (Ten-Mile Bob) and Captain Penny, the leaders in the raids and attacks on the river steamboats in that vicinity.-FORT SUMTER, S. C., was bombarded by the National batteries on

Morris Island.-MR. -- SPENCE, of London, England, ceased to be the financial agent of the rebel government.-Richmond Despatch, Sept. 29.

177.)

September 30.-Colonel Rowett, with the Seventh Illinois and Seventh Kansas regiments of

cavalry, had a fight with the rebel guerrillas under Newsome, at Swallow's Bluff, on the Tennessee River. Colonel Rowett came up with the rebels while they were crossing the river. About one hundred had already crossed with the horses and baggage, leaving a major and twenty men on this side. The rebels were sheltered by the bluff, and defended by their comrades on the other side, who were in supporting distance, but the Unionists dashed in and captured the whole party with the loss of one killed and two wounded.-THE bombardment of Forts Sumter, Johnson, and Simpkins, in Charleston harbor, was continued all day, Forts Moultrie and Simpkins alone replying. (See Supplement.)

-AN engagement took place at McMinnville, Tenn., in which the rebels were repulsed with a loss of a large number of prisoners.-THE rebel steamer Herald was captured by the gunboat Kearny, and carried into Key West, Fla.-MAJor-General GranT, from his headquarters at Vicksburgh, issued Special Orders authorizing the issuing of rations to such families only, as should "take an oath to support the Government of the United States, and to withdraw all support and countenance from the so-called confederate government."-THE entire cotton crop in South-Carolina was seized by order of Briga-LEONIDAS POLK, a Lieutenant-General in the dier-General Rufus Saxton, by virtue of author-rebel service, being relieved from his command ity vested in him as Military Governor of the "in consequence of an unfortunate disagreement between himself and the commander-in-chief of Department of the South.-GENERAL Orders were issued by Major-General Banks, at New- the rebel department of the Mississippi," issued Orleans, La., authorizing the Commanding-Gen- his farewell order. eral of the Corps d'Afrique "to detail from the October 1.-The rebel General Wheeler, with line an additional staff-officer, with the rank and a large body of mounted men, crossed the Tenpay of captain, to be designated Corps Instruct-nessee River at Washington, at a point thirteen or,' whose duty it shall be to superintend in miles above Chattanooga, and passed down the garrison, and, as far as may be consistent with Sequatchie Valley. He captured fifty wagons military duty, in the field, the education of men belonging to one of General Rosecrans's trains, at engaged in the Corps d'Afrique." the foot of the mountain, near Anderson's Cross

Roads, burning a number of them, and killing family, he is by other prints stigmatized as a about three hundred horses and mules. The submissionist; and cavalry squads are sent out train was laden with ammunition, clothing, and by the confederates to subsist on his already dirations. Forty wagons carrying medical and minished supplies, and with a view to make him sanitary stores, and about fifty sutlers' teams miserable and poor indeed, his little crop of cotwere also lost. ton is burnt to cap the climax of trouble.